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...lives he has changed but in the cause he has championed. If modern evangelicalism is in many ways Graham's passionate creation, it could suffer grievously once he is gone. A war over either the social agenda of the religious right or the theological assertions of the Fundamentalists could rend the movement that he held together almost against its fractious nature...
...apparent to me, through the unconscionable, destructive act perpetrated by two members of the department on April 5, 1993, that the apron strings which once held these two entities together have not become the lashes which can rend them apart and promote the elimination of one entity to satisfy the needs of the other. That act, which seemed incomprehensible to me nearly 90 days ago, is entirely feasible (albeit despicable...
...masks transform the actors into cartoon-like creations who rape, rend and mutilate each other. Viscerally effective but some-how distant, the brutal sexual situations manage to shock without offending. However, anyone with delicate sensibilities will likely not be able to stomach the sight of ribbons, knives and concrete interacting with appendages that aren't designed for such rough treatment...
...establish a loan program with a base sum of $1,000,000 to rend money to small landowners for structural improvements to their rent-controlled properties...
...effort to repeal the prevailing wage is simply another attempt to rend the fabric of this social contract; its proponents are not only anti-labor, but anti-community. Organized labor is a valuable and productive component of American society. The prevailing wage is as important to the labor movement as child labor laws, Right-to-Know laws, and the minimum wage...